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A short, polished card-based roguelike about guiding a royal child through dream worlds with path-building combos and a fairy-tale/nightmare mood.

The Royal Writ
A single-player medieval roguelike deckbuilder where cards risk permadeath and sacrifice builds your legend, with whimsical art but punishing difficulty and runs averaging around five to six hours.
2025-08-07
- Strategy
- Fantasy

Card & Board Game

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Union of Gnomes: Prologue

A short, challenging strategy RPG prologue with mana-driven combat and roguelike replays in a fractured fantasy world.

2024-05-23

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Cartapli : Fold Quest

A free-to-play single-player roguelite that turns battles into origami-like paper-folding puzzles, offering short, tricky tactical skirmishes.

2026-02-04

Puzzle
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

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The Darkest Tales — Into the Nightmare

A short, dark fairy-tale action-adventure where a teddy bear and fairy sidekick rescue their owner from a nightmare version of "happily ever after."

2021-10-14

Action
Platform
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Simulator

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Porcelain Tales

A compact, free-to-play fairytale action-adventure about a gnome causing mischief in a porcelain world.

2022-02-04

Action
Science fiction
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Survival
Fantasy
Third person
Indie
Mystery

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Magecraft: Spellbuilding

A free-to-play single-player turn-based deckbuilding roguelike about crafting spell cards and countering enemies in randomly generated dungeons, offering creative fun across roughly 13–15 hours.

2025-09-12

Strategy
Indie

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Dark Lord

A free-to-play, single-player roguelike RPG centered on darkly comic A/B choices, deck-building, and community-created stories, playable in around 100 minutes.

2024-08-15

Action
Comedy
Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Side view
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game
Visual Novel

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Castle Of Secrets: Prologue

A short, free-to-play 3D fairy-tale adventure with perspective puzzles, a mixed reception, and a story that invites player choice.

2022-11-18

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Bag of Dreams

A cozy single-player roguelike deckbuilder about building card synergies and expanding dream slots to fend off nightmares, with short, replayable runs and cute 2.5D art.

2026-03-24

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Card & Board Game

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Royal's Gambit

A compact retro-styled turn-based card game that mixes solitaire-like matching, deckbuilding, and roguelike restarts into an addictive single-player loop with light math challenges.

2025-11-04

Strategy
Indie

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NOMIA

A story-rich tactics roguelike of guiding two heroes through a shattered dream using Action and Gambit cards for combo-based, positional combat.

2026-05-31

Adventure
Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game

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Sanctum Ruins

A free single-player roguelike deck-builder offering quick strategic runs with 8 unique classes.

2026-04-17

Strategy
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Card & Board Game